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NASA spacecraft at the moon snaps photo of Saturn from lunar orbit - Space.com

NASA spacecraft at the moon snaps photo of Saturn from lunar orbit - Space.com

NASA spacecraft at the moon snaps photo of Saturn from lunar orbit - Space.com
Nov 28, 2021 39 secs

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has been circling the moon since 2009.

But a new image NASA shared on Monday (Nov. 22) from the spacecraft shows a very different destination: Saturn, complete with the planet's stunning rings. .

13 using its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC).

The image shows the northern side of Saturn's characteristic rings and more of the planet's northern hemisphere than the southern.

— Amazing Saturn photos from NASA's Cassini orbiter.

— Amazing moon photos from NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

LROC's cameras were designed to study the moon, of course, so NASA had to manipulate the spacecraft carefully to catch such a stunning image of Saturn.

That's because Saturn is dimmer than Jupiter, according to NASA — and both are much dimmer than the moon that LROC is tailored to study!

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